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"Across the globe, there is a war raging between dictators and those who challenge their rule. With groundbreaking reporting and brilliant analysis, acclaimed journalist William J. Dobson reveals the inner workings of today's authoritarian regimes and takes us behind the lines in this battle for the future of freedom."--Jacket.

In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.

The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth...

"The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. All of the country's land west of the Mississippi was sold to Russia nearly fifty years earlier, and "Little Russia", as its now called, is ruled by the son of Tsar Alexander II. The United States is being run as a police state by his former secretary of war Edwin Stanton, a power-hungry criminal who rules with an...